Almost too thin - Razer Blade 16

0:00 This is such a weird laptop box.

0:02 It's so thin.

0:03 Some might even say it's razor thin.

0:10 This is such an awkward intro.

0:12 I'm so sorry.

0:12 Okay.

0:13 Did you see that?

0:13 It has a giant THX X logo on the side of the box.

0:16 Holy cow.

0:17 It does have a has a giant THX logo.

0:19 Put the sound.

0:26 This is such a strange box for a laptop,

0:28 but I'm still excited to unbox the Razer Blade 16 baby.

0:32 This one is not quite the top config, but oh my goodness,

0:36 does it have a lot of power under the hood,

0:38 and it comes with a a very, very expensive price tag to match.

0:42 This might be the most expensive laptop I've ever held in my life.

0:45 I'm going to game on it.

0:47 This is a fun box.

0:48 Okay, Razer, get rid of this.

0:50 This is kind of cringe and creepy.

0:52 Welcome to the cult of Razer.

0:55 Let's take a look here.

0:56 We'll get this laptop out of the way in here.

1:00 There you go.

1:00 Our power brick, which How many wattage is it?

1:05 280 watts.

1:06 What's the connector on the other end, though?

1:08 It is.

1:10 Oh, I you know, for half a second,

1:11 I was like, how did they get 280 watts over USBC?

1:15 Well, they didn't cuz it's not USBC.

1:17 Like, for half a second there, I was fooled.

1:20 It's clearly some Razer proprietary cable,

1:23 but it's expected if you want to draw that much wattage.

1:26 So, and then obviously the C13, which is the other end of it,

1:31 but I don't care about this stuff.

1:37 I care about this.

1:42 It's really heavy.

1:44 But then when you look at the size of it,

1:47 you're like, "How did they pack that much weight in this thing?

1:53 Holy cow." When I read the specs of this laptop the first time,

1:58 I was like, "Oh, gaming laptop.

1:59 It's going to be huge.

2:00 Going to be bulky." I'm kind of impressed.

2:03 Man, the green logo still is definitely off-putting for a lot of people.

2:06 But you know what?

2:07 That Hey, we'll do that for now.

2:09 Okay.

2:10 Embrace the cult.

2:12 No, I'm not going to embrace the cult.

2:14 What else is in here?

2:15 We got some Razer propaganda.

2:17 And under the rest of the box, that's it.

2:20 I kind of teased you by saying when I first read the specs.

2:23 How about we go over them?

2:24 In here is the Intel Core Ultra 9 processor, the 386H version.

2:29 You can also get a Ryzen AI 9365 version,

2:33 depending on if you want to be an AMD boy or an Intel boy.

2:36 For us, we got the Intel version as well as a 5090.

2:40 But if you want to get the 5090 that is in here,

2:45 you have to go with the Intel skew.

2:47 The AMD skew only limits you to a 5060.

2:50 Oh, only a 5060.

2:52 I need my mobile 5090.

2:56 That is monstrous.

2:57 You can get it with up to 64 gigs of RAM as well.

2:59 In our config, we only got 32 gigs cuz let's face it,

3:03 ain't nobody want to pay more than that because of RAM prices.

3:06 And we have two terabyte of storage.

3:08 For the rest of the exterior of the laptop,

3:10 I know I kind of googled it how thin it was.

3:12 On the right side of our laptop,

3:13 we have our Thunderbolt 5 port, full-size SD card reader,

3:16 a USB 3.2 Gen 2 port, and an HDMI 2.1 port, as well as your Kensington lock.

3:23 And the thing with Thunderbolt 5 is you can get 80 Gbit per second.

3:26 That's really great if you were going to connect an external GPU, for example.

3:30 I don't expect you would because again, this one has the 5090.

3:33 And on our left side, we have another Thunderbolt port.

3:35 This one's just Thunderbolt 4.

3:37 We have another two USB 3.2 ports.

3:40 And oh, that's the power cable there.

3:42 That proprietary one that I thought was USBC.

3:44 And then a combo headphone audio jack there.

3:47 And on the back, nothing.

3:49 On the front, nothing.

3:50 But you know what is all over this device?

3:53 Holy crap.

3:54 I've had it in my hand for like four seconds.

3:59 Oh my gosh, that's brutal.

4:01 My hands are not even that sweaty today.

4:03 And I I I know I've said I'm a sweaty boy before in past,

4:06 you know, short circuits.

4:09 It should not be that bad.

4:11 That's pretty brutal.

4:12 You know what?

4:13 With how thin this laptop is, I wonder if it'll pass the Apple MacBook test.

4:17 For those who don't know what it is, one hand open.

4:26 That's pretty good.

4:28 Usually what can happen on these laptops is

4:30 you can see as you're pulling up the hinge, the bottom will lift up.

4:33 The only thing I struggled with was actually getting my finger like in there.

4:38 It's pretty It's pretty slick.

4:40 That's pretty nice.

4:41 I won't lie.

4:42 As for our keyboard, holy crap, that's a big trackpad.

4:46 What a big laptop.

4:48 It's just kind of hitting me the scale of this laptop.

4:51 And I think it was when I noticed the size of the trackpad.

4:53 Oo, look at that RGB, baby.

4:56 Back lit keyboard.

4:57 That is a very bright backlight as well.

4:59 Holy cow, this screen looks great.

5:04 Wow.

5:05 I obviously not the greatest with anti-glare as you can see, but again,

5:08 I know I'm in a studio with giant lights at it,

5:11 but it is very, very nice with this background.

5:16 I really like this display already.

5:18 I mean, I haven't seen any content yet.

5:19 Maybe I'll hold my thoughts.

5:20 I'll hold my thoughts.

5:21 Okay, it is 2560 by600, 240 hertz, which my monitor at home is like 120.

5:30 I I don't know how laptops keep getting like faster and faster herz.

5:34 My monitor at home just trucking along at 120, baby.

5:37 I don't know if you'll even get the full use of the 240 Hz.

5:41 I know I mentioned that the GPU in this is a 5090,

5:43 but one thing that a lot of people

5:44 don't know about laptops is there's actually different,

5:48 you know, 5090s and different 5080s.

5:50 It depends on what the board is drawing in terms of power.

5:54 For example, in our tests that are coming up, we compared it to an Omen laptop.

5:59 That 5090 can reach 175 watts, whereas this Razer Blade 16 reaches 165.

6:07 Now, you might be thinking, well,

6:08 can't I just unlock it to 175 or can't I change them or whatever?

6:12 Not really with how Nvidia does their mobile GPUs.

6:15 So, while it is a 5090, it's not the best mobile 5090.

6:20 And I guess we'll see how that actually plays into some of our results later.

6:24 But, I want to do some tests of typing.

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6:59 Like I said earlier, this thing's heavy.

7:00 I want to do a quick bend test.

7:02 if I break this before we actually get into gaming.

7:04 But that's that's why they call them short circuits.

7:07 That's shortest short circuit.

7:09 Oh, you know what?

7:14 For being how thin it is, I think it is understandable that it bends that much.

7:20 It still makes me uncomfortable.

7:21 Uh the actual chassis itself though, like the rest of it.

7:25 Oh, I can hear it creaking.

7:28 But it is Try to get it lined up here and I'll try to twist it.

7:32 It's pretty good.

7:34 It's pretty I'm giving it pretty good beans there.

7:37 And it's got some good rigidity.

7:38 I wonder how that translates into typing, though.

7:43 Oh, I love this keyboard.

7:46 Oh, this might be one of the best laptop keyboards I've typed on.

7:52 It is a membrane.

7:53 I'm reading my notes here on it.

7:54 Sorry.

7:55 1.5 millimeters of travel membrane keyboard.

7:58 I got a little bit of deck flex.

8:02 You can definitely see,

8:02 but I'm also like all eight fingers giving her pretty good.

8:07 If I'm just typing, you can't really see any.

8:11 I I don't know why.

8:12 Maybe it's cuz the meme of Razer and how like hardcores hate Razer.

8:16 You kind of go into these videos kind of skeptical.

8:18 I think this might be my favorite keyboard I've ever typed on a laptop.

8:21 I'm very impressed.

8:23 Razer, I do want to play with the trackpad a bit more.

8:26 Trackpad not the smoothest to glide over.

8:28 The click is very satisfying.

8:30 I can tell when I'm clicking though.

8:31 It's definitely a bottom left and bottom right click on this.

8:34 Are my gestures going to work?

8:35 Yeah, it seems like my gestures are going to work.

8:37 So, if I want to go multi- desktop or anything,

8:38 I like how big of a trackpad it is.

8:41 As long as palm rejection does a pretty good job,

8:43 which I'm seeing some movement in my cursor when I just

8:48 am kind of like moving my hand along the keyboard here.

8:51 I've seen better palm rejection, I will say.

8:54 You notice that when I'm typing, look at the screen.

8:59 It's got it's it's subtle, but it is it's wobbling.

9:04 That could be just because of the table.

9:06 I'm not going to give full blame to Razer on that.

9:08 I do want to listen to some audio,

9:09 and I do want to watch some video on this thing, though.

9:11 This screen looks really nice.

9:13 The laptop has six speakers total, four upfiring and two downfiring.

9:18 And hey, that THX, this better sound freaking amazing.

9:23 I've got a little board underneath here so

9:24 it's not directly firing into our deskpad from ltstore.com.

9:28 All right.

9:28 You know me, I like to do 100% volume first.

9:31 Here we go.

9:38 It's not as loud as I thought it was going to be.

9:43 It's not as loud as I expected it to be at 100%.

9:46 But what I will say is it sounds really good.

9:50 Um, the only thing I noticed a little

9:51 bit weird was the snare just before the drop,

9:55 but that was probably a personal preference for me that the Lenovo,

10:00 for example, had way worse on the snare.

10:02 Um, the MacBook had way worse on the bass, right?

10:05 This has a very nice balance across the entire mix.

10:09 I'm going to turn it down to 50% though,

10:11 and we'll see kind of what that sounds like.

10:17 Did that turn down?

10:18 That sounds almost the exact same volume.

10:21 I'm at 50% now.

10:23 100%.

10:33 I almost feel like my volume is on a curve.

10:36 I don't think my volume is linear on this.

10:38 It's almost like it's curve like that.

10:40 Yeah.

10:40 Sorry.

10:40 Curve the other way.

10:41 Yes.

10:42 Not not this way.

10:43 because the 50% did not sound half as loud as the 100%.

10:49 So, keep that in mind.

10:50 I guess it still sounds very good.

10:52 These speakers sound awesome on a laptop,

10:56 especially again, man, for something this freaking thin, dude.

11:01 Holy cow.

11:02 The fan grills one and two here.

11:04 I kind of just picked it up with one hand and one of my hands happened to land

11:07 on the fan grill and all of the weight went

11:10 through this mesh and I could actually rub the fan.

11:13 Uh, now it's not going, but I don't know if the fan's not spinning because

11:16 I broke it or if it's just not hot enough.

11:19 We'll see you when we game.

11:20 We'll see you when we game or open it up later.

11:22 That is not good.

11:24 Uh, yeah, that I didn't like.

11:26 I don't think I've ever encountered that on a laptop before.

11:29 All righty.

11:30 I've got my Cyberpunk here.

11:32 It's time to play 16.

11:35 I had a stroke.

11:37 So, we're on 1600 resolution here.

11:39 We're on ultra settings and we got no rate tracing,

11:43 no upscaling or anything like that.

11:45 And I've got a 100 FPS average as I'm just driving

11:48 through the back desert here with my 1% lows being almost 100.

11:53 It dipped to 90 there, but that's rock solid.

11:56 That means I'm not going to notice any weird hitching, right?

11:59 Sometimes having a high average FPS isn't the best.

12:02 If your 1% lows dip to 30, 60, or whatever it may be,

12:05 that's when you notice like the oh my gosh, a stutter.

12:08 Having it very tight between your average and your 1% lows is that's nice.

12:16 What's not nice?

12:17 Do you hear those fans?

12:18 Can you hear them on the mic?

12:19 Holy crap.

12:26 That's the THX.

12:28 That's where they get it from.

12:29 Okay, this is hot to the touch.

12:35 Like I could not comfortably hold my finger

12:39 on this spot right here for more than 5 seconds.

12:44 Like I I would feel very uncomfortable.

12:47 Actually, this whole top bar I would not feel comfortable.

12:51 I mean that makes sense.

12:52 That's where the exhaust is.

12:53 That's where everything's coming out.

12:54 But like I'm kind of surprised that passed certification.

13:00 It's pretty hot.

13:01 For those who don't know when manufacturers are making devices there are

13:05 certain things that they have to pass in terms of you know

13:08 em what is it emf radiation or like whatever and then there's

13:11 also temperature so the surface

13:13 of these devices cannot actually exceed a certain

13:16 temperature because if you were to hold it or put it

13:19 on your lap being a laptop it could actually burn you and I'd

13:22 be very shocked if somehow this passed certification it's like uncomfortable

13:27 to touch too hot razor genuinely And now that the fans are spinning,

13:34 I'm going to see if I can recreate this again if I pick it up with one hand.

13:36 Ready?

13:37 Yeah.

13:38 Do you hear that?

13:41 I can touch the fan on both sides.

13:46 Not great for how rigid everything else felt.

13:49 I'm surprised that that's an oversight cuz I

13:51 often pick up my laptop with one hand.

13:53 I hope I'm not the only one.

13:55 All right, let me power this thing down.

13:57 Let's open it up and let's talk about some of the performance results.

14:02 Non-captive screws.

14:03 That's fine.

14:04 Whatever.

14:04 At least the screws are relatively easy to access.

14:07 As for the performance of this laptop,

14:08 we compared it to a very similarly spec HP Omen laptop

14:12 with the difference being that that 5090 on the HP Omen draws 175 watts.

14:17 And as you can see, it basically results

14:20 in the HP Omen being just slightly better.

14:23 The only difference was in 1200p, the Razer laptop outperformed in Cyberpunk.

14:29 That makes sense because at that lower resolution,

14:31 you're probably more CPU bottleneck than you would be GPU bottlenecked.

14:35 But even though it's drawing less wattage,

14:38 it's well within what we would expect the performance of a mobile 5090 to be.

14:42 I will say the biggest difference between the HP Omen and the Razer

14:45 was that there was a bigger difference between your average and your 1% lows.

14:50 Kind of like I pointed out when I was actually gaming in Cyberpunk there.

14:55 But all my screws are out.

14:57 I think it Yeah, the fan base broke.

15:01 Wait, is this just a slide off?

15:03 Wow, that was really easy.

15:05 I will give Razer credit.

15:07 There's no clips holding it in.

15:09 That was actually just a simple pop off after I got all my screws out.

15:13 Very nice, Razer.

15:14 I like to see it cuz that'll make upgrading things like

15:18 your storage easier or your Wi-Fi card easier or adding a secondary drive.

15:23 You can fit up to 8 terabytes total in this if you put two 4 TB drives in.

15:28 Other than that, it's kind of kind of empty.

15:30 The whole vapor chamber is under here.

15:32 Even this is still warm after it's been off for a couple minutes now.

15:36 And our battery here, where's our size?

15:40 90Wh hour battery.

15:41 That is a chonker.

15:45 Wait, normal.

15:47 Sorry, I see typical capacity and normal energy.

15:52 What's the difference?

15:53 Yeah.

15:53 So, it's funny cuz when I did the battery report as well,

15:56 the the power CFG battery report, it also reports 85 uh watt hours.

16:01 So, but Razer's website says 90.

16:04 M look, it might have gotten less performance in our games, but holy cow,

16:09 even though there was only a 2Wh hour difference between this and that HP Omen,

16:14 this battery lasted more than 6 hours longer.

16:18 It got almost 10 and 1/2 hours compared to 4 and 1/2 on the HP Omen.

16:25 Man, Panther Lake is awesome, isn't it?

16:27 As for getting fully charged,

16:28 our Razer Blade took just over a 100 minutes to get fully charged.

16:32 HP Omen took about 120.

16:34 And Razer claims on their website that you can

16:35 go from 0 to 80% in about 45 minutes.

16:38 We were not able to test that claim,

16:41 but hey, quick charge times always appreciated.

16:44 And long battery life also always appreciated.

16:47 I kind of glossed over it though, but you could swap out your Wi-Fi card.

16:50 Probably won't need to.

16:51 It's Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.

16:53 I think this is one of the first laptops I've opened that had Bluetooth 6.

16:56 Most of them are on 5.4 or 5.2.

16:58 And other than that, that's the Razer Blade laptop.

17:02 But how much does it cost?

17:06 This is where uh this is where it's probably going

17:09 to be a turnoff the video for a lot of you.

17:11 It's $4500.

17:15 Man, this is where I get conflicted, right?

17:18 Because obviously that is an insane amount of money and I should be angry.

17:22 Ah, it's a lot of money.

17:24 You're getting a lot of laptop for that money.

17:26 You're getting a 5090.

17:27 You're getting incredible battery life because you got the Panther Lake.

17:30 I mean, a lot of that price could come from just crazy DRAM prices right now.

17:33 You know, SSDs are expensive.

17:35 RAM is really expensive,

17:36 which you'll notice now that I'm in it, RAM is not upgradeable.

17:40 And that's because in order to hit

17:41 the insane speed of 9600 megat transfers per second, needs to be soldered.

17:48 And this is where I get torn again.

17:49 We're now getting incredible RAM speeds.

17:52 Like 9600 mega transfers per second is unbelievable.

17:55 But we're compromising upgradability or repairability

17:58 in order to hit those speeds.

17:59 This isn't the first time we've seen it, right?

18:01 I don't know.

18:01 I'd be curious to know what you guys would prefer.

18:03 Do you guys like the crazy high speeds and performance of it,

18:06 or do you think it's worth the lower speed in order to be able to swap it out?

18:10 I guess for you, it's going to depend

18:12 on what you want out of the Razer Blade 16.

18:14 I think the top spec is $5,000 right now,

18:17 and the entry point is around the $2,000 mark.

18:21 $2,000 is still a lot of money for a laptop,

18:22 by the you can get a MacBook at that price.

18:24 And depending on what you're doing it

18:26 for, that could probably be better for you.

18:29 But I'd be curious to know what you guys think.

18:31 And honestly, what do you guys think about how thin this is?

18:34 It's nice that we're getting Windows laptops this thin.

18:36 If you guys are interested in super thin laptop designs

18:38 like this, go check out Adam's video on the ZenBook 16.

18:42 It's kind of similar in terms of its thinness.

18:44 And well, I didn't watch the video yet,

18:46 so I can't actually tell you how the video went.

18:47 So, hey 16.

18:49 WHAT THE DID I SAY?

18:52 16.